Physician burnout should be taken seriously, not glossed over with pseudoscience or politically correct propaganda for the Affordable Care Act.

Shadow Quill 's insight:

Burnout can increase stress, significantly affect the immune system, can potentially lead to serious illnesses, such as heart disease, hypertension, and others, and can be the cause of serious medical/work-related mistakes. In order to decrease burnout, it is absolutely necessary to practice mindfulness and self-care. Self-compassion can reduce burnout, prevent mistakes, and potentially improve physical and mental health

Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to the changes in heart rate on an inhale and exhale. Typically, when we inhale, the heart accelerates and when we exhale, it decelerates. The higher the variability, the better the cardiovascular health. However, with frequent stress and hyperventilation, the HRV becomes lower because there isn't enough time for the heart rhythm to change due to shallow breathing. This is bad for health and can potentially cause heart problems or hypertension. This article shows that the effects of exercise and an infection after a bone marrow transplant are equivalent. However, the effects of chronic stress on HRV can potentially be worse.

A Boston-based project is using predictive analysis technology to comb through social media posts in hopes of preventing suicide.

The opt-in Durkheim Project combines search technology with predictive analysis to estimate the suicide risk of an individual based on what he or she is posting on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Already in collaboration with Facebook, the Durkheim Project is currently gathering social media data from participating active duty military members and veterans.

This could be really helpful in preventing future incidents of suicide due to cyberbullying or other causes. If the project has success among the US army veterans, we could see it being implimented worldwide.

This is probably the neatest way to utilize social media to benefit our troops. The Durkhein Project is testing for mental illnesses by analyzing social media communication. Many people with mental illness want to be heard, but that doesn't mean they will just come out and say it or try to get the help they need. By finding key words or phrases, we may be able to eventually find who has PTSD or who is contemplating suicide.

While they have built a complete science around this, my only concern is that they might pinpoint the wrong people every once in a while. If they do, and their command is notified, could it affect their career? I suppose this is dependent on how they decide to deal with alerts if this is implemented. I think it is important to maintain that clinical intervention would be necessary first and only allow the member's command in if it is verified that the person is suicidal.

With that said, I give tremendous kudos to this project. People that have a mental illness usually try to let people know they need help in some way or another. The Durkhein Project can help us better able to pinpoint these signs.

gNats Island is designed to help adolescents overcome negative thoughts, anxiety, and depression. The graphic, character-based game is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

On the "island," players "meet" the negative automatic thoughts in the form of pesky "gNats" that have a "nasty sting." The Black and White gNat makes you think in extremes. The Complete Disaster gNat makes you think everything is a complete disaster, and so on. Almost 750 therapists in the U.S., Ireland and the UK have been trained to use the game with their young patients.

How the brain creates the 'buzz' that helps ideas spread / UCLA Newsroom

Shadow Quill 's insight:

What seems to make the video go viral is consideration about the likelihood that others would want to view it. When people can think of another person who is likely to benefit or enjoy the video, they are more likely to share it

Researchers at Harvard University have created the first noninvasive brain-to-brain interface (BBI) between a human... and a rat. Simply by thinking the appropriate thought, the BBI allows the human to control the rat's tail.

Marijuana-like medicines that lack the plant's psychoactive properties can be used to effectively treat some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers at New York University Langone Medical Center explain in a study published...

As we became warriors, children, cats, cows and pigeons, I realized that concentrating on position and breath takes even the most cerebral of us out of our nattering, hectoring brains.

Shadow Quill 's insight:

Yoga has been shown to alleviate pain, improve health, and reduce stress. It has been used to help cancer patients cope with the cancer treatments and appears to be extemely beneficial for the body and mind

In a recent study, done in collaboration with a team from Sheba Medical Center and funded by the Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, [Dr. Debbie Rand] found that people recovering from stroke who use video games as a therapeutic method are more physically active during rehabilitation sessions, making more movements overall than those who experience traditional motor therapy.

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